CARLO NANGERONI

Carlo Nangeroni was born in New York on June 24^th, 1922, from a family of lombard Emigrants. In 1926 he returned to Italy to study. From 1938 to 1942 he attended the Courses at the "Scuola Superiore di Arte Cristiana Beato Angelico" in Milan and at the same time evening classes at Brera.
After the war, in 1946 he went back to the United States and settled in New York where his family lived. He made new life experiences, experimenting and researching in the field of art, coming into contact with the new currents of American painting and its major artists.
For some years he made expressionist abstract oriented paintings, similar to the experiences of the Action Painting of De Kooning etc, while showing interest for the work of Rotko and Tobey.
In the same years, in collaboration with the N.B.C. television network, he worked for operas and plays.
In 1949 he organised his first personal exhibition at the New York Circulating Librar, of Painting.
He began to exhibit his works in collective exhibitions at the University of Illinois, the Rochester Institute of Art and Science, Wells College, Winona State College and the Pennsylvania National Accademy (1957-1958).
In 1958 he came back to Italy and settled in Milan where he knew the critic Carlo Belloli and the artists Of the Milan circles. From 1973 he taught at the design "Scuola Politecnica" in Milan.